More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
  2. It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
  3. It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
  4. The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
  5. When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meanin…
  6. D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay,…
  7. Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always h…
  8. He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

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